Thanks. I should have been a better communicator! Yeah, I know the pics have some LP capabilities and I should have said more, but my thought train is quite "sporadic" at times, I'm ADHD and autistic and my brain and mouth don't get along most of the time ;-). It's good to be antisocial some times because of it. I will have a look at the code in detail, thank you for sharing it. I may fold it in my project. One of the things I did change in my code was to ramp the LED's up to full-on, to help manage current in-rush. I should have done this to begin with as I do it with motors to help with that.
I'm not sure what LEDs I will end up using in the building and had 12v whites at the start of the night but ended up with the 5v ones at the end. I'm going to have a 12v large cell in the building that I will trickle charge via speaker wire or the like from my garage. The indoor light will get very little use, but the outdoor will get a bit more on-time. I will put an LDR on that controller for night-time usage only. I may make a panel of 12v whites for the inside but will have an outdoor LED light that will run at 12v. I need to look into that at some point but will sort out the battery and charger first.
Thanks,
Scott